What the internet gives, the lawyers taketh away

Oh, the memories of days gone by and the web services we once enjoyed. Mashable put together a top-ten of sites which are no longer available thanks to the lawyers, and it reminds us of exactly what we're close to losing.

Nine of the sites -- among them Napster, Mp3.com, OLGA and Singing Fish -- are yet sweet memories, while one still stands with one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel; Pandora. As of May14th, due to the ridiculous wrangling involved in international licensing, Pandora went offline for all users who reside outside of the US of A. Ironic that, given that it's the good ol' USA which has 2 months to clear up the mess caused by a mandate to increase streaming royalties, or face the fact that streaming radio -- as we once knew it -- isn't going to exist anymore.

Tags: last.fm, music, pandora, streaming music, streaming radio, StreamingMusic, StreamingRadio